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November 16, 2009

Walkthrough: CSI: NY Episode 5: Derailed

You can skip two mini-games in each scene. There are two lights next to a Skip button on each mini-game that shows the status of skipped games. Skipping games will get you lower ratings at the end.

Click on underlined text in conversations to pursue topics. Completed topics will change colour from pink to white.

Drag items from the inventory to a person to ask questions about them.

Your Credibility depends on which questions and objects (and sometimes which part of a particular object) you choose to ask the suspect about. Your credibility decreases if you ask irrelevant questions.

You can only save in one slot you when exit the game.

This game is lucid and reasonable enough to finish without any hints if you’re an experienced adventure / puzzle / HOG gamer.

walkthrough:

You play as Detective Mac Taylor. The game starts with the discovery of a frozen body aboard a NY subway train.

Scene 1: Subway Car Interior

Talk to Det. Don Flack:

1. 'morning': It's 3 am.
2. 'only in New York': The victim, posed as a passenger, was frozen.
3. 'in a fight': Mac says he was hit by a bike messenger.

Solution: The bits of tape have to be placed so as to completely cover the residue under the shoe i.e. to cover all the green areas of the grid. Hint: This game is made complicated by the fact that there are 16 squares to be covered and 17 squares of tape, so there is overlap to 1 square each of two pieces of tape. This is completely trial and error.

1. 'more than I want to': Justin was quite the ladies' man.
2. 'usual routine': The moaning and the banging.
3. 'different': Justin's bed was bumping but there was no other noise, about a month ago. He's missing since then.

Show Doris the torn note: She admits to writing it.

Show Doris the skull ring, click the top of the ring: It's Justin's.

Show Doris the money clip, click Justin's face: She IDs him correctly.

Show JZ the ring, click the lower half: He recognises the ring as Justin's.

Exit the conversation.

Scene 8: Interrogation Of Jamaica Zambrano (JZ)

Talk to JZ:

1. 'woman': With red hair, overcoat and a scarf over her face.
2. 'wormies': The lady gave JZ and his boys 20 bucks each, and JZ the watch for pushing the train.
3. 'her partner': JZ doesn't know the 'partner' was Justin's dead body.

Show JZ the money clip, click the photo: He recognises Justin.

Show JZ the ring, click the lower half: The lady refused to give it up.

Exit the conversation.

Scene 9: Crime Lab

Click the top right monitor: DNA Analysis

Mini-game: Tissue Wad DNA

Solution: Click the tweezers to grab and drag the DNA swirling in the centre to their boxes on the sides till one DNA is left.

Solution: Rotate the 5 knobs at the base of the microscope till the right side image matches the left side image. Click the yellow 'arm' of the knobs to rotate. Each circle clicks into place when correct. Start with the innermost or the outermost and work towards the opposite end.

Solution: The bits of tape have to be placed so as to completely cover the residue on the carpet i.e. to cover all the green areas of the grid. This time there are no overlapping pieces of tape, but of course, it's all completely trial and error.

Solution: Rotate the 5 knobs at the base of the microscope till the right side image matches the left side image. Click the yellow 'arm' of the knobs to rotate. Each circle clicks into place when correct. Use the white cells as pointers.

Solution: Rotate the 5 knobs at the base of the microscope till the right side image matches the left side image. Click the yellow 'arm' of the knobs to rotate. Each circle clicks into place when correct. Use the vertical tread lines as pointers.

Solution: Rotate the 5 knobs at the base of the microscope till the right side image matches the left side image. Click the yellow 'arm' of the knobs to rotate. Each circle clicks into place when correct. Use the white spaces along the outer rim and the yellower shades towards the middle as pointers.

10 comments:

I'm not aware of any bugs in the game. If it's not ending then something somewhere is being left out. I suggest you replay the episode step-by-step using the walkthrough, because I have completed the game using these exact steps - I write the walkthrough as I play. Good luck.

Thank you for your suggestion. Now that you mentioned "bugs", I remember that during the installation I had to "omit" one item, so that could be it. Or is it that I don't feel like replaying the whole episode ;)? I don't think you could go to the final scene without EVERYTHING you need, the game is pretty directed -no free will- so.. Pero gracias por todo anyway! thank you!

Hey Sue, I totally get not wanting to do all the forensics again :) But, I don't think your omitting something during installation (most probably Direct X) is the reason for this as you have finished the previous four cases and the cases open sequentially. It's also most likely NOT an item, but a conversation thread that hasn't been closed properly, which is why all loopholes of the case haven't been tied up, so to speak :) If you have a save game partway, you can retry from there. Anyway, it's been cool to talk to ya :) Happy gaming!

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